ILO Forum commemorating
World Day for Safety and Health at Work
"Safety, Health and
Environment at Work:
Demand for international cooperation"
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Everyone desires a decent life with good levels of safety, health and environment at work. But, the real life of people is different, affected by the
development stage of his/her own country. It is said that there exists a
vicious circle of low productivity, low wages, malnutrition, diseases and low
working capacity, by which the country's development stage itself is affected.
Current estimates point to some 2 million men and women who lose their
lives through work-related accidents and diseases each year. If we neglect
dangers and health hazards at work, the general environment of a community will
be jeopardized. This means that safety and health at work is a basic
requirement for decent life with care for sustainable environment.
The ILO will observe an annual World Day for Safety and Health at Work
on and around 28 April world-wide. This year's overarching theme is "Promoting
a Safety Culture at Work". On this occasion, a forum is organized by ILO Office
in Japan (This new name of our office is effective as from 1 April 2003, changed
from ILO Tokyo Branch Office due
to reorganization of ILO field structure) in cooperation with concerned
organizations to commemorate the World Day in Japan.
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D A T E
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| Monday 21 April 2003, 13:30-17:00 (Registration 13:00-13:30) |
P L A C E
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Elizabeth Rose Conference Hall, 5th floor, UN
House(UN University)
(5-53-70 Jingumae, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo
about 10 minutes walk
from Omotesando or Shibuya stations) |
P R O G R A M M E
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Keynote
speech:
"Safety, health and environment at work and development"
- Dr. Kazutaka
Kogi, former Director, Department of Working Conditions and Environment, ILO
- Special Report:
"Current
situation in Asia and the Pacific countries and ILO technical cooperation"
- Dr. Tsuyoshi
Kawakami, ILO Subregional Office for East Asia
- Panel discussion:
"Current situation and issues of
Japan's international cooperation"
Reception commemorating the publication of
"Encyclopaedia of Occupational
Health and Safety"(Japanese version)
will be held immediately after the forum,
from 17:00 to 18:30 at the Lounge behind the Conference Hall |
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All
interested members of the public are cordially invited to attend the forum and
reception. Admission is free. We regret to inform you that the forum will be conducted only in Japanese. For
inquiries, please contact Mr.Teramoto(Tel: 03-5467-2701).
For participation, please register by Tuesday, 15 April sending your name, affiliation, title, address, Tel/Fax Nos. and E-mail to the ILO Office in Japan by Fax: 03-5467-2700 or E-mail (forum@ilotokyo.jp).
N.B.:
Once you send your information, you are automatically registered. We will contact you only when the registration is full. Unfortunately, we cannot provide
parking space. |
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